Well-known contester Pat Barkey, N9RV, of Bonner, Montana, will become the 15th editor of National Contest Journal (NCJ) effective with the January/February 2015 issue. He takes over from Kirk Pickering, K4RO, who has served as NCJ’s editor since 2012. Pickering said he believes Barkey will bring a fresh perspective to NCJ readers.
“I am delighted that N9RV has stepped up to take the role as the…
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Just the first of many videos coming on how the New Era of Ham Radio is so much fun.
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The 2014 Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Conference (GAREC 2014) held last week (August 14-15) in Huntsville, Alabama, and hosted by the ARRL Alabama Section and the Huntsville Hamfest, offered an opportunity for participants to share presentations and perspectives from around the globe. Greg Sarratt, W4OZK, organized this year’s GAREC event, which focused on the application of ad…
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Ham radio or CB RADIO. Both CB Radio and ham radio have their good and bad points. CB Radio or Citizens band is there for anyone to use, range is antenna and…
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This is a selection of my Home Made HF Radio Antenna’s / Aerials and Baluns And Carbon Fibre Beach Vertical Antennas, Traps Coils etc… My Caged Dipole cons…
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Understanding how mortgage interest rates and APRs, or annual percentage rates, work can help you choose the right loan. APR’s include the mortgage interest …
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ARRL Southern Florida Section Manager Jeff Beals, WA4AW, has won a full term in his own right, after being appointed to the post earlier this year. In the just-completed summer election cycle, Beals, of Loxahatchee, received 570 votes to 270 for his challenger, Tom Gallagher, NY2RF, of West Palm Beach. Ballots were counted on August 19, at ARRL Headquarters.
Beals will begin his 2-year term of …
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Recent live reporting posts
A heartfelt tweet from Norwich City defender Ryan Bennett, who has today signed a new three-year-deal with the club. Along with an image of a nicely put together … The 22-year-old signs a four-year deal and moves for an undisclosed fee, thought to be …
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Sportsday – football transfers latest
A timid day turned into a busy one with West Ham, Hull and Liverpool signing fresh talent, while Everton keep their main man as Ross Barkley signs a new deal. Plenty more to ….. club in Italy. BBC Radio Stoke have now discovered his destination is …
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Dipole antennas are simple to construct and can be used in many applications. In this video I will show you how to construct a dipole antenna for the 2.4GHz …
Scanner Antenna from bent arrows… this 1/4 wave antenna does a decent job, almost pulled in NOAA sat’s imagery… mainly designed for 2 meters, aircraft, f…
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A team of Russian cosmonauts has deployed the Peruvian Chasqui-1 Amateur Radio CubeSat into orbit during a spacewalk from the International Space Station (ISS). Expedition 40 Flight Engineers Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev released the tiny, 1 kg spacecraft at 1423 UTC on August 18. Chasqui-1 is a project of the Peruvian National University of Engineering (Universidad Nacional de Ingenie…
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An Amateur Radio Village and special event station GB2EMF will be among the highlights for hams at the Electromagnetic Field “EMF 2014” event Friday through Sunday, August 29-31, just south of Bletchley in the UK.
“EMF 2014 is a festival for anyone interested in radio, electronics, space, homebrewing, robots, UAVs, 3D printing, DIYBio, Internet culture or pretty much anything else you can think …
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DJ6SI, DJ5RT, DJ7YQ, DJ3NG, DK9KX, DF3KX FORMED THE TEAM OF FR0DZ/G, FR0RZ/G, FR0CIW DX-PEDITION ON GLORIOSO ISLAND.
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A short video showing the setup of portable Amateur Radio station VK3KQ station at grid location QF22UK, near Marysville in Victoria. Thanks to all the stati…
The ARRL Centennial W1AW portable operations taking place throughout 2014 from each of the 50 states and now in Oklahoma will relocate at 0000 UTC on Wednesday, August 20 (the evening of August 19 in US time zones), to Ohio (W1AW/8) and North Dakota (W1AW/0). During 2014 W1AW will be on the air from every state (at least twice) and most US territories, and it will be easy to work all states sol…
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Weekend Plantings: Edible Fig, Dry Times Ahead, Famous Sausage Tree
Monitor your turf: When turf is in obvious distress — when foot traffic leaves lasting impressions in the lawn — apply ½ to ¾ of an inch of water. There's no recommended frequency for irrigating because the factors that influence soil moisture are so …
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The illusion of invulnerability
Some people surveyed by the HPB feel that a normal result following screening would cause undue emotional distress beforehand besides being a waste of time and money, while abnormal test results would burst their blissful bubble. So they … Going for …
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Everything You Need To Know About The Ebola Virus Outbreak
The patients all presented with potential Ebola-like symptoms (such as fever, gastrointestinal distress, headache), and several of them had traveled recently in western African countries. Fortunately, the New York Times reports that, so far, no new …
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Motherless monkeys: UW-Madison to revive controversial primate experiments
"These discussions that they had about this study don't occur with any frequency at all. In fact, I don't know of …. But the Primate Research Center maintains that its nursery-reared monkeys usually do not display these overt signs of distress …
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This is the first in a series of videos that guide you through the sections in the ARRL General Class License Manual. Each video is an introduction to the se…
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The renegade Radio Caroline, which entertained rock ‘n’ roll fans in the UK and Europe from the 1960s until the 1990s from offshore shipboard transmitters and studios, is back on the airwaves from the River Blackwater off England’s Essex Coast using a temporary, low-power license. It has plans to obtain a permanent AM broadcasting authorization. Radio Caroline was among the first, and most famo…
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A Kingdom Divided?
It is a matter of irrelevance to me that each day the leading sports radio station ridicule Arsenal. That a supporter of Peterborough United who occupies in terms of intellect and journalistic ability the same place as his team do in the football …
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This book presents innovative solutions for the implementation of Sigma-Delta Modulation (SDM) based Analog-to-Digital Conversion (ADC), required for the next generation of wireless hand-held terminals. These devices will be based on the so-called multi-standard transceiver chipsets, integrated in nanometer CMOS technologies. One of the most challenging and critical parts in such transceivers is the analog-digital interface, because of the assorted signal bandwidths and dynamic ranges that can b
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Here’s my personal Field Day setup, running 1-Bravo in Ontario. I had hoped to try out some new wire antennas in the backyard, but I could not find all of my…
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Scales of Justice
Max McTaggart, 30 of no fixed address, admitted possessing two “deals”, 0.15g, of heroin, a Class A drug, in Gillett Road, Banbury, on April 4. … entered the property as a trespasser; possessing cannabis, a Class B drug, at Abingdon Police Station on …
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Brendan Rodgers: Liverpool won't sell Daniel Agger
Published 17/07/2014 | 14:01. 0 Comments; Share. Brendan Rodgers has praised Daniel Agger. There have been reports that the Reds are looking to sell the Dane as Rodgers addresses the defensive frailties that cost his side the Premier League title last …
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John Delaney signs new €1.8million deal with FAI
Published 17/07/2014 | 08:20. 0 Comments; Share. 01 of 2. Previous; Next. John Delaney has signed a new deal worth €360k a year. A still from John Delaney with Irish fans at Euro 2012. FAI chief executive John Delaney has signed a bumper €1.8million …
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H-T Webgroup from Sarasota: Skywarn spotters are trained to report severe weather to the National Weather Service.
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A few nice ARRL images I found:
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ARRL Field Day at the Reagan Library 2014
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ARRL Field Day at the Reagan Library 2014
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The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Special Committee on the Future of Shortwave Broadcasting foresees a dim outlook for the medium. The Committee this month released its assessment of the current and projected use of shortwave radio as a platform for programming by US international media.
“United States international media must optimize delivery by audience/market,” one main finding concl…
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ve3cnu.blogspot.com Hi guys, thought I would show you how I like to spend my Sunday afternoon in my backyard, on the deck with my Icom IC-7000 rig hooked up …
2013.4.27 ALL JA CONTESTにて。 ICOM IC-551にて50MHz SSBを受信。 ANTはベランダ（マンション9F）に横に突き出したモービル・ホイップ Comet HR-50 IC-551の内蔵SPにて。 ALL JAコンテスト時なので沢山の局がON AIR。 IC-551の受信音はナ…
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A lunar flyby with a ham radio payload transmitting JT65B mode on 145.990 MHz is expected to take place toward the end of this year, giving earthbound radio amateurs the opportunity to receive some otherworldly DX signals as the payload flies around the Moon.
China has announced plans to launch a lunar orbiter carrying a 14 kg battery-powered payload known as 4M-LXS, which was developed at LuxS…
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Solar activity showed further signs of weakness this week, with the average daily sunspot number dropping 41.8 points to 94.9, while average daily solar flux declined 36.5 points to 113.1.
In the 45-day forecast for solar flux, it was surprising back on August 3 to see a new solar flux prediction of 150 for August 31 through September 3. I suspected this prediction would come down to a lower lev…
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I show how a QRP (5-watt) station can search for contacts on a busy band during the ARRL CW Sweepstakes. The first contact (QSO) is translated for non-hams/C…
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Poniendo a punto un micrófono Icom SM-20. Limpieza y apreciaciones varias acerca de la calidad de sus materiales y construccion.
Learn tips on how to rig a ham radio properly in this free CB radio video. Expert: sledge Bio: Kurt Glaser, callsign of N7QJM, has been an active ham since t…
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Today I will share with you my goal zero nomad 7 solar in a can ham radio system. More goal zero videos here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLks71j5Ag…
The nearly 300 radio amateurs who live in Poway, California, may erect antenna support structures of up to 65 feet with only a building permit and a courtesy notice to their neighbors. The Poway City Council unanimously approved the new ordinance on August 5. According to an August 6 Pomerado News report by Steve Dreyer, the Council “declined to adopt an alternative ordinance that would have re…
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TS-440Vを100wに改造しました。 ダミーロードの耐圧が10w程度なので心配です.
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The winner of the August QST Cover Plaque award is Phil Salas, AD5X, for his article “Antenna Feed Line Control Box.”
The QST Cover Plaque Award — given to the author or authors of the most popular article in each issue — is determined by a vote of ARRL members on the QST Cover Plaque Poll web page. Cast a ballot for your favorite article in the September issue today.
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A few nice Ham Radio images I found:
Pixie II CW Radio
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Pixie II CW Radio, constructed by KJ4AED from a kit. This is KJ4AED’s first real project. He learned a lot putting it together. He made a few mistakes, but thinks he corrected them all. Next step: learn CW so he can actually use it!
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Canadian radio amateurs will take part in the previously announced CW-only special event operation on 600/630 meters this fall. The Maritime Radio Historical Society (MRHS), which maintains the KPH/KSM commercial coast stations, also will participate in the event. ARRL 600 Meter Experimental Group Coordinator Fritz Raab, W1FR said the MRHS participants will conduct a mini “Night of Nights” oper…
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The approximately 450 radio amateurs who live in Poway, California, may erect antenna support structures of up to 65 feet with only a building permit and a courtesy notice to their neighbors. The Poway City Council unanimously approved the new ordinance on August 5. According to an August 6 Pomerado News report by Steve Dreyer, the Council “declined to adopt an alternative ordinance that would …
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The big logperiodic hf antenna is lifted away from the SK0CC amateur radio club station in Haninge in Sweden.
AMSAT has issued a call for papers for its 32nd AMSAT Annual Meeting and Space Symposium. This year’s event takes place the weekend of October 10-12 at the DoubleTree Hotel, Baltimore-Washington International Airport (BWI), Linthicum, Maryland.
Proposals for papers, symposium presentations and poster presentations are invited on any topic of interest to the Amateur Satellite community. Final co…
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This is the DARA emergency vehicle. DARA was very kind in bringing it out for our group to tour. This thing is amazing!
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Here is lesson 12! In this lesson we cover the T3C questions from the question pool dealing with radio propogation. If you have any questions, comments, or s…
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Military Auxiliary Radio Service (MARS) stations from Okinawa and the US West Coast joined members of the Canadian Forces Auxiliary Radio Service (CFARS) to participate in the first phase of the US Pacific Command’s multinational “Pacific Endeavor-14” communication exercise that concluded on August 11. The disaster scenario was a massive earthquake in Nepal that caused a large number of casualt…
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There had been a call for the MURS frequency of 151.820 megahertz to be the National Prepper Calling Frequency. However this frequency is just above the 2 m …
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A USB dongle SDR radio.
The ARRL Centennial W1AW portable operations will be heading to the Pacific this fall. From October 8 until October 21, W1AW/KH0 will be on the air from The Radio Space of Tinian, Tinian Island in the Northern Mariana Islands. Ten operators from the US and Japan will support the activity.
Starting in early November, W1AW/KH8 will fire up from American Samoa. Heading up the operation is Mike Good…
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ROS – THE NEW AMATEUR RADIO DIGITAL MODE The first contact on ROS mode took place on the 18th February 2010 between Vitoria in Spain and the University of Tw…
Learn tips on how to contact people on a ham radio in this free CB radio video. Expert: sledge Bio: Kurt Glaser, callsign of N7QJM, has been an active ham si…
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Extra license issued 2 days previous. I wanted my first contact to be QRP CW DX on a restricted Extra band but I didn’t have the equipment, drive, or CW skil…
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Ham Radio Deluxe Rotator Control Demo.
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The ARRL Centennial W1AW WAS operations taking place throughout 2014 from each of the 50 states are now in Vermont and New Jersey. They will relocate at 0000 UTC on Wednesday, August 13 (the evening of August 12 in US time zones), to Oklahoma (W1AW/5). There will be only one state active from August 13 until August 20. During 2014 W1AW will be on the air from every state (at least twice) and mo…
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LUSO44TN (44m height) CRANK-UP TOWER & Tetsujin27(27m height) CRANK-UP TOWER.
Will I succeed? Talking about my new computer, my upcoming vacation to Thailand and the GAMEPLAN that is behind it all. -Videocard: ASUS GeForce GTX 580 1536…
Thanks to the ARRL’s 2014 Teachers Institutes on Wireless Technology, nearly 3 dozen teachers will be heading back to school this fall better equipped to incorporate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) principles into their curricula. A dozen educators also returned home with an Amateur Radio license or a license upgrade.
As part of its outreach to schools, the ARRL Educatio…
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This is a 1991 volvo sedan 940 its in great condition, new brakes, all four wheels are new and radio has a built in cd player and usb connection, and seat wa…
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